British GP: Lewis Hamilton says Ferrari ‘can definitely dream’ as Lando Norris, Oscar Piastri talk up rivals | F1 News
Lewis Hamilton says that Ferrari “can certainly dream” after a “really positive” Friday at the British Grand Prix.
Ferrari appreciated their most competitive Friday of a disappointing season so far around a warm but windy Silverstone.
Hamilton, the record winner of the race, gave the rhythm to the opening session and although Lando Norris was the fastest of two tenths of a second in the second session, the two Ferraris remained in the first three of the time sheet and at a striking distance from McLaren.
“I really think we can dream of having a strong weekend. But, execute and put it completely and extract it is another thing,” said Hamilton, who is looking for a 13th podium consecutive to Silverstone.
“I will prepare the best that I can make sure that we get the best result. Tomorrow tomorrow [Saturday] There is rain potentially to come and on Sunday too, so I will do my best to make sure we are ready for that. “”
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Lewis Hamilton says he allows himself to “dream” of a strong weekend after having established the third best time of the second training session of the British GP
Ferrari introduced a new floor to the Austrian Grand Prix last week, which improved his SF-25 car while Leclerc finished on the podium and Hamilton in fourth, although far behind McLaren.
However, Ferrari is tied with McLaren if Friday race in Silverstone is something to do while Leclerc and Hamilton both finished their best moments on the second keys, but were still only a few tenths of Norris.
“It was a very good day. Great to see the crowd. Incredible to be on the track in a Ferrari in Silverstone. It’s quite incredible,” said Hamilton.
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Anthony Davidson of Sky Sports F1 takes a look at the way Hamilton has concluded the best time of the first training session at the British GP
“McLaren and Red Bull have had an upgrade, so that we are still in the mixture, since they had a step, is really positive. I progress a lot now with the car. I am much more in the window where it must be.
“By P2, we were still not where we must be, so in P2, we had more harm, but we know the modifications we have to make for the next session.”
Leclerc, who was the strongest of Ferrari pilots this year, told the radio that his race configuration was “quite good” but later confirmed that they should find “another step” for qualifications.
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Before the British Grand Prix, Hamilton shared his hopes to claim his first podium with Ferrari in Silverstone
“The day was good. We were quite strong. We still have to find a certain rhythm in qualifying. McLaren is the car to beat, but with the rate of racing, I was happy,” he said.
“I find my way. I changed the car a lot recently to find a certain rhythm in the qualifications. I did not find a way for that, but we are very strong in the race.”
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McLaren: Ferrari is in the fight
The leaders of the McLaren championship, who won eight of the first 11 races of the season and absolutely dominated last week in Austria for their fourth two of the year, saw enough on Friday to name the Scuderia as a great threat to them.
Norris said that “the Ferraris were very, very fast today and they will be tomorrow”, while Oscar Piastri said: “It was a bit of a surprise. They looked good, both in the qualification and long traits.
“They are in the fight this weekend, which is interesting to see.”
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Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri give their opinion on Friday practical British GP
And George Russell, whose Mercedes team was once again having trouble in the heat on Friday and finished outside the top five, added: “Ferrari revealed the last two races. They were strong at the rate of racing all the season but had bad qualifications.”
For all this, McLaren is always likely to remain the favorites for pole position on Saturday, in particular with Norris having apparently carried his beautiful form of Austria to his event at home.
The Briton exceeded the Ferrari by two tenths of a second, although, as usual, played the meaning of the apparent advantage of McLaren Friday.
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The teammates of McLaren Norris and Piastri were in the charging room to monitor the key moments of an exciting Austrian Grand Prix
“I think we have a little work to do, to be honest,” he insisted.
“It may seem a little too good today, as always. Ferrari always catches up with the P3 as they did last weekend, so I would say satisfied today, but nothing is too proud for the moment.”
Norris, however, targets a first position of Pole Silverstone in front of his own platform for the first time – the “Landostand”, located outside of Stowe Corner which is sold with 10,000 fans.
“It’s my target. I work on it,” said Norris when he asked him questions about pole position.
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Before the British Grand Prix, Norris says that his home race is always the one he wanted to win
“”[The grandstand] is incredible. I look at him every turn. It is difficult to miss so every round, I have to look at it, but it is also a good thing to see. And if it distracts me, it’s distracting others, so it works perfectly! Keep it up.”
Piastri ended almost half a second behind Norris on the time sheet and admitted his fastest turn on the soft tire “had been a little messy”.
However, the 15 -point championship chief remained satisfied with the place where he stood.
“The potential is definitely there and the long races also seemed solid,” added Pitri. “An interesting day and I think a lot of competition.”
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Verstappen: Red Bull missing performance
Max Verstappen underwent an understeer throughout Friday and was half a second rhythm on the second try. However, Red Bull traditionally has a big leap forward during the night in Saturday and Christian Horner said that the team should be able to “put away” the balance of the car and its new floor.
“We give 90 cents of our time around 6 and 7, so the slow speeds turning in the wind, but the rest of the knees seem quite decent,” said Horner.
“The long term seems quite decent, so I think we have something to work with, we just have to adjust it in the right way.”
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The director of the Red Bull team, Christian Horner, admits that the team must prove to Verstappen that she can compete for the pilot championship in the middle of the speculation he could leave after this season
Verstappen was less optimistic and said that he had “no balance in the car”, which made him “very difficult from the corner in the corner”.
“Each week, these are different scenarios. Now, with the wind here, it seems that our car is quite sensitive. But, in general, it is not an easy day,” he said.
“Maybe some we will examine, but I think that overall, we lack performance.”
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The temperature of the track in Silverstone was nearly 40C, which injured Mercedes while Kimi Antonelli and George Russell were more than five tenths of the rhythm of the two sessions.
Russell says that he hopes the rain on Saturday, with 40% of rain affecting qualifications.
“We hope that it will cool for the rest of the weekend. It is frustrating that every week is at the mercy of the weather,” he said.
“We have to improve this, especially now we are in the summer months. We do our best to improve it.
“Our fortunes will turn to the rest of the weekend and it will come to us, but we cannot be at the mercy of the weather and we are right now. If it’s wet in qualifying, I will be excited for that!”
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Before the British Grand Prix, George Russell says that he does not think I will go anywhere “despite the rumors of Verstappen join Mercedes
British Sky Sports F1 GP schedule
Saturday July 5
9:10 am: Sprint F3
11:15 p.m.: GP British GP Trois (session starts at 11:30 am)
1:10 p.m.: F2 Sprint
2:15 p.m.: British qualification accumulation GP *
3 p.m.: British GP Qualify *
4:55 p.m.: F4 Race 1
5:40 p.m.: Ted qualification notebook
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Return to some of the most dramatic moments over the years at the British Grand Prix
Sunday July 6
8:15 am: F4 Race 2
9:25 am: F3 functionality breed
11 am: F2 Race Feature
1:30 p.m.: Grand Prix Sunday: British GP Build-Up *
3 p.m.: The British Grand Prix *
5 p.m.: Damy flag: British reaction GP *
6 p.m.: Ted * notebook
* Also on the main event of Sky Sports
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